Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:42:18 +0000 From: Hugo Silva <hugo@barafranca.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Distributed audit daemon committed (was: svn commit: r243752 - in head: etc etc/defaults etc/mail etc/mtree etc/rc.d share/man/man4 usr.sbin usr.sbin/auditdistd (fwd)) Message-ID: <50CF132A.9020804@barafranca.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1212011512410.34256@fledge.watson.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1212011512410.34256@fledge.watson.org>
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On 12/01/12 15:15, Robert Watson wrote: > > Dear all: > > I've now committed the build glue required to install the recently > merged Audit Distribution Daemon (auditdistd) contributed by the Pawel > Dawidek, and sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation. This allows > individual hosts generating audit trails to submit trails to a central > audit server for review and safe keeping. Part of the goal is to ensure > that a host submitting trail data can't later modify the trails. Pawel > uses a variety of useful security- and resilience-related features such > as TLS, Capsicum, etc, in auditdistd. As the recent security incident > in the FreeBSD.org cluster illustrated, having reliable and detailed > audit trails makes a big difference in forensic work, and hopefully this > will allow the FreeBSD Project (and our users) to do that better in the > future. > > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge Wonderful! Personally I think this is a very worthy addition to the project and I would like to congratulate and thank everyone involved in this work.
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